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Sachs Echoes Harris on Threat of Anti-Intellectualism
Friday, September 26th, 2008Jeffrey Sachs seems to be echoing the words of Sam Harris in his most recent opinion article.
Earlier this week, Harris wrote an article bashing America’s desire for anti-intellectualism. Sachs has jumped on the bandwagon of defending intellectualism and elitism in politics by taking a Saganistic approach to the issue by showing how in an age of Science, anti-intellectualism and disdain for Science are the last things we should be preaching.
This is a great article by Sachs, and coming from probably the word’s leading Economist, his words should resonate outside of the science-minded community.
As for what I think, I’ve also noticed that it’s the parochial, the religious trump card, the in-group behaviour that ties itself to an anti-intellectual nationalism that is stunting the growth of the global community. If only people could get over themselves, over their Gods, over their tradition, over their dogma, over their disdain of modern science, and over their disdain for intelligence, then we could mature as a civilization and realize that in this day and age we need to rely on eachother to survive.
…Apparently I can take a Saganistic approach as well.
Tags: anti-intellectualism, elitism, harris, Palin, Sachs, science
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